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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB OF TVVO-THIRDS TOHENRY B. SPITZ AND CHAS. E. GODFREY, OF BOSTON, MASS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,211. dated August5, 1884.

Application filed October 8, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRRIs P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Innprovenients inPockets for Garments; and I do hereby declare the following, when takenin connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, the woven strip; Fig. 2, a trans verse section on line a: m;Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through the transversewoven porr 5 tion;Fig. 4, a transverse section on line y 3/; Fig. 5, the strip as wovenopen at both edges for the formation of the mouth of the pocket, Fig. 6,a transverse section on line 2 2; Fig. 7, a vertical-section through apocket as attached to the garment; Fig. 8, a modification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of pocketsfor garments, the object being to weave the pocket complete, and therebyavoid the usual cutting and 2 stitching of the two thicknesses togetherto produce the pocket, and whereby the pocket may be made as an articleof manufacture; and it consists in pockets for garments woven in acontinuous strip of double thickness, the

0 two thicknesses united transversely across at intervals to form thebottom of the pockets, the edges also united, except for a certainpredetermined distance, to form the opening, and by which opening theedges are woven separately, therebyproducing a selvageat the opening,and as more fully hereinafter described.

Iu weaving the strip a loom is employed with mechanism such as is wellknown,

whereby two thicknesses may be woven at the same time and the twothicknesses united as onethickness at any desired point. In width thestrip corresponds to the extreme width of the pocket. It is woven solidat the edge,- as

5 at a, connecting the two thicknesses b and d, as seen in Fig. 2. Atintervals of about the length of two pockets the two thicknesses areconnected entirely across, as at e, for a short distance for that classof pockets which have an opening in one edge, as for pantaloons. The'twosides are separated at one edge, as seen in Jr-say as fromi to Z,Fig. 1. The

remainder of the distance between the ends of these openings the edgesare joined, as in Fig. 2. Leaving this opening, the two separated edgeswill be woven as single and independent /thicknesses, thereby making asclvage upon each of those edges. The strip thus woven is cuttransversely and centrally across the solid woven portion 6, as at f,and midway between the solid portions, as at h. Each of the parts so outforms a complete pocket. The selvage edge of the opening greatlyfacilitates the attaching of the pocket over what it would be were theedge out. In some cases of a transverse mouth it is desirable that onethickness shall extend above the opening, while the other will be onaline with the opening. To this end I weave the fabric, as before; butinstead of leaving the opening in but one side, as from t to I, Fig.

1, I weave the two edges open for a spacesay as from ito Z. (See Figs. 5and 6.) Then, when the strip is cut as before, the two thicknesses atthe upper end are separate, so that 7 5 the upper thickness may beattached to one side of the garment at the pocket above and the other tothe garment below, as seen in Fig. 7.

Instead of weaving the solid portion 8 at right angles across the strip,it may be woven curved, as indicated bythe lines at, Fig. 8, and thenthe strip out, as indicated by'the lines a, which will give the roundedshape to the inside of the pocket.

This strip maybe woven and sold in the market as an article ofmanufacture, and cut up by the consumer.

What I claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, a series of 0 pocketswoven in a continuous strip of double thickness, the two thicknessesunited trans versely across at intervals to form the bottoms of thepockets, the edges also united, except for a certain predetermineddistance, to form 5 the opening, the edges of that opening beingselvage, substantially as'described.

2. A =woven pocket for garments, having the bottom and edges closed inthe process of weaving, except that one or both edges be left open inthe process of weaving, to form the mouth of the pocket, substantiallyas de scribed.

\Vitnesscs: MORRIS P. BRAY.

JOHN E. EARLE, J 0s. G. EARLE.

